Comments by "Siana Gearz" (@SianaGearz) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1. Material recovery seems like something that can be effectively pushed back for a while. If the battery is decommissioned it can merely be disassembled into cells, and then those cells tested, matched and reused. Combined with a reduced charge termination voltage, and thus effectively reduced capacity, as well as reduced charge current and reduced discharge current, so reduced thermal stress, they can last another 2 decades after they have had a decade of relatively heavy use. A perfect use for that would be combined with intermittent renewable energy sources (solar, wind) to buffer them and reduce reliance on coal and fossil. This solves two pressing needs simultaneously very cheaply. The moderate capacity of recycling that shall be reached soon or might be reached now can be sufficient to catch just the more heavily decayed cells that cannot be reused. Ah yes, you mention that pretty much.
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  2. Ironic that Toyota ended up among the least affected manufacturers. Presumably they took supply chain security more seriously.
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  3. Botched the wording a little bit, not to speak of the kind of vocabulary not used by lead representatives of a polite, child friendly company. Shigeru Miyamoto, quoted regarding N64 delay: "A delayed game is eventually good; but a rushed game is forever bad." Interestingly reviews don't even play into it, as they knew they had young loyal fans who would be buying the product without consulting any reviews. Disappointing them would burn this relationship forever, which is much worse than bad reviews. Remember, people didn't have Internet access back then. Magazines were around, but their reach was in tens of thousands copies while product reach was in millions for the same given region.
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  4.  @gorillaau  that is potentially a myth, at least Teapo has indicated that Japanese companies blew the story out of proportion, possibly to push up their own profile and generate more sales. It's possible that Taiwanese companies ran into the same issues formulating and characterising capacitors as Japanese did in the early 90s, just later. Indeed there were some truly funny batches from unknown brands (not major Taiwanese brands) which measured "ultra low ESR" right off production line but just wouldn't last but they would have been gone by 2002. The continuing capacitor plague story is probably down to not observing the maximum ripple current and derating by electronics manufacturers, and then shifting the blame.
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  5. You man Tseng Labs?
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  6.  @scarletmoon777  besides commercial purposes there are also strategic ones. A country without its own armaments is necessarily under someone's control.
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  7. We need more outdoor-capable electronics. There was a company that made drop in replacement laptop/netbook displays which are (nearly) full colour indoors but turn (nearly) monochrome high contrast under strong sunlight. I'd like more of that sort of stuff.
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  8.  @gorillaau  the 80% water electrolyte with a little boric acid in the funny capacitors with no stabilising compounds is documented, it should have been obvious to the high ranking chemist that is known to have quit Rubycon and moved to Taiwan that it would just eat up aluminium in no time, by all reason someone else who doesn't have the faintest idea or was just up for a quick scam is responsible for that garbage.
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  9.  @964cuplove  it's millimetres. The silicon crystal is manufactured either 20cm thicc or 30cm thiccccc (and very tall, those are impressive things in their own right, kill you easily) and then sliced, that's the wafer size. Problem is any equipment works with one size or the other, you can't like peacemeal upgrade the factory.
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  10. The SAM is of course an inherited Atmel chip. Indeed all Atmel, Microchip, NXP, Nuvoton, STM low-end micros are sold out a year in advance and have been for a year and something, everything under $3, most things under $7 as well. And it's been a lot tougher to work around than shortages of higher end chips, which are still kinda available. Also special function analogue/linear semiconductors of particular kinds are hit hard. Chinese domestic chips have better availability. Maybe more 45-28nm utilisation? I do think maxing 28nm and node shrinking designs needs to be an intermediate goal, i feel, not adding another 90nm fab. But i think more 28nm fabs won't go to waste.
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  11.  @alecpharris1455  Why "Western nations"? Cooperation with the Soviet Union would seem like the only sensible approach.
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  12. It's also the only computer intended to be sat on. Very warm and comfy.
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  13. I'm just amazed by the breadth of topics you're able to cover!
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  14. With most of the economy consisting of state-employed workers, SED didn't have much difficulty manning such a counter-demonstration, under implied threat of withdrawing the wage bonus or disciplinary action that can lead to termination.
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  15. You can still make a ladder out of industries that are moving out. Like you have a manufacturing business, gradually it accumulates know-how and engineering acumen, and eventually, you can partition and move out most of the manufacturing and retain the more space efficient and more lucrative engineering and some critical and high tech manufacturing bits. But for that the industry must have to have been there to begin with and allowed to develop in this direction, partially naturally, partially maybe with incentives. It doesn't help if you just tear the industry down and then expect higher value jobs to just appear and stay there, there's no roots they can grow from!
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  16.  @Ritternkreis  Yes he does it alone. But he also has an educational and work background in semiconductor manufacturing, which is how he's able to do it.
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  17.  @truthsocialmedia  I think you might be confusing something. V2200 is entirely Tseng-free. And Tseng never finished its 3d chip, at least not before going belly up. But it was indeed fairly useless.
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  18.  @PhilippBlum  I think the OP assumes he has a team due to density and quality of output; while it's really one dude who has a decade worth of a backlog of topics he was thinking about and writing things down.
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  19. Yeah my genuine Z80 never sat or worked right in a Soviet socket. But the whole computer had issues, the semiconductor quality was low.
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  20. I knew exactly what the video was going to be about the moment i saw it in my feed. Unless somoene else didn't, or particularly nearly skipped the video due to thumbnail/title, i don't feel a clarification or improvement is necessary.
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  21.  @pqsk  It was probably his ONE municipality. I can think of other municipalities in Germany which went somewhat digital early (there are privacy/law related issues why a lot of communication can't be purely electronic specifically) and even maintained their own Linux distro for a while.
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  22.  @ChrisJackson-js8rd  Hey i don't feel this video is a qustion of blame, but learning the history and the situation.
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  23.  @xrysf03  Near the end of WW2 Carl Zeiss which was located in Jena was split. The company core actually fled to Oberkochen in West Germany; but the leftover equipment that they failed to evacuate continued to run as VEB Carl Zeiss in Jena. Here he's talking of the East German company, later known as Jenoptik after German reunification, since continuing to call it Carl Zeiss would violate actual Carl Zeiss name rights. The key long term partner of ASML has been the real Carl Zeiss, the one in West Germany. Eventually, Carl Zeiss bought back Jenoptik and reunited the company.
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  24. I prefer reporting em. But it never seems to do much.
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  25. Lenin is usually quoted saying "meals" rather than "bowls of rice". However there is no evidence he actually said that. It's a quote one may encounter in English speaking circles, but i had never heard of it in a Russian language context, although i have experienced the last days of Soviet Union from within. It also rings untrue, since Soviet Union used famines to enslave and control people, didn't care about a little mutiny, chaos did not totally ensue. In all odds, you lot invented the quote.
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  26. What goes up must come down Yet my feet don't touch the ground See the world spinning upside down A mighty crash without a sound I can feel your every rage Step aside, I'll turn the page Breaking through your crazy maze Like a laser beam, my eyes on you
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  27.  @Conservator.  per transistor cost bottoms out at 28nm, so maybe there's a way to regain some of the cost advantage vs. 130nm? It's just that there wasn't enough pressure to build more, not enough to offset the risks. You do have a problem that IO area probably won't shrinkify much at all though.
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  28.  @acedeuce  Rumour has it, has a year long queue of videos which are available to paying patrons immediately while they get unprivated to the general public on a schedule.
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  29. China is so rapidly growing that their industrial output gets easily absorbed domestically.
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  30. As it happens, i have some relevant experience. 10 years ago, i was a developer on a commercial 3D engine - at the time, it was slowly failing as a game engine, we were shipping some WiiWare and XBLA shovelware, but for all intents and purposes, Unity was eating our lunch. Before Unity came about, we had the most popular indie and small-scale game engine in the region, with some AAA-ish successes. With just a couple exceptions. One, is that we have carved out a niche in virtual studio, that is all these news and weather and all kinds of TV broadcasts which were filmed against a bluescreen, so they had camera tracking, realtime compositing, and the studio would be assembled and rendered in a game engine. I didn't think this trend ever looked good or was good and as it happens, now it's dead, the virtual studios have been gone for 5 years. The second was the CG movie previsualisation. The problem is, when you're filming a movie against blue/greenscreen, where do you put the camera, what will actually be in the shot once the post production team is done with it? Previs doesn't have to look entirely photorealistic, but it has to be all the right things in the right place and it has to respond to lighting, and it solves that problem. On-set previs with camera tracking will allow the DP and director to see on a screen an adequate approximation of what they're aiming towards, on set. So that was our second hope to survive, and we were well equipped, given existing camera tracking partnership and TV foothold and the technical traits that we offered. Unfortunately, a lot of other companies also recognised the need, it was actually a massive push at the time, Crytek was actually the only big game engine players represented in this area directly, and they had a lot going for them, like A LOT, others had some sort of ad hoc tech specialised for the purpose, bound more closely to industry animation software, or were built also on top of existing game engines. What's happening now is that Unreal is eating everyone's lunch, it's digging hard under Unity on all fronts. Indie devs are also gradually less interested in Unity, and well you have mentioned The Mandalorian yourself. What Unity needs is a foothold and some industry expertise to enter this industry. If they can get at least one major studio not going Unreal, they have at least some hope in this industry. There appear to have been a number of what i might describe as panic acquisitions by Unity just to make sure Epic/Unreal doesn't get there first. Also it is a little funny to hear a company where core engineering on their namesake product is from Denmark and is assembled from European devs first and foremost to be described as "American" but that's the world we live in, i guess.
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  31.  @kasuha  arguably there's actually more 33khz crystals around than any other. Many devices are outfitted with two crystals, one in the 8-20MHz range for their active mode and a 33KHz one to enable ultra low power interrupt and RTC functionality while the rest of the device is powered down.
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  32. ​ @gaboronem8615 that person is trolling you.
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  33. I don't see TSMC as a narrowly profitable company. It's very healthy by being ahead. Besides it's an ecosystem. TSMC and UMC work in conjunction with many local semiconductor design houses; which in turn work in conjunction with computer and electrical engineering companies that make products, designed in Taiwan, manufactured there or abroad. The web of tightly knit industry connections allows all these industries to operate faster and more efficiently and be close enough to leaders to be competitive.
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  34. Russian companies are de facto disconnected from international customers because payment methods no longer work internationally smoothly. Companies that had any international customer base are going to move to Georgia, Emirates, Egypt, Turkey, Israel and whatnot.
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  35. Well there's also Dutch and Flemish languages which are... identical save for pronunciation. Nobody should really care whether you should consider them languages or dalects of each other. Technically a dialect is a way of speech that isn't formalised and evolves wildly, while a language is one that has an official governing body. So indeed British English and American English should be considered languages, not dialects. In turn Bavarian (Boarisch) is not understood by most Germans, but is a dialect, since there isn't somebody formalising it and teaching it at schools in that form. Declaring that something is a dialect can have a bit of imperialistic stink to it especially if the carriers of that way of speech happen to disagree.
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  36.  @megalonoobiacinc4863  Pollution? No. I would say pollution is something that you release into the environment uncontained, and i don't anticipate substantial release like that in the future, and to a small extent, radioactive material is just naturally present in the environment, so as long as you stay well under this order of magnitude, it's fine - and also to be considered that burning coal releases radioactive pollution as well. Contained waste products that need long term management is what you might be thinking of. Ultimately the consensus has emerged that you can just dig a deep enough hole in some vaguely stable rock and bury the previously stabilised stuff in there, and then forget about it and it's absolutely fine long term without reservations, at least at foreseeable future scale of waste production (you possibly can't just scale it up endlessly); but then there's NIMBYs. Other solutions include further use of what is currently waste but there are political roadblocks as well. Ultimately current form of nuclear power is a temporary measure, to hold us over for the maybe next sub 50 years until we figure something out. As far as temporary measures go, i'd say it's pretty decent as long as it isn't the only hydrocarbon independence measure taken but part of a broader strategy. It's also a temporary measure because we're going to run out of uranium, so our potentially limited ability to safely entomb waste is well balanced by the raw resource being limited in the first place. So waste isn't really a problem.
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  37. Yeah the vaguely plausible looking conversation thread kind.
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  38. U880 is a decent chip, this exact die was used under different part numbers across all of Eastern Europe and Soviet Unionn.
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  39. Two different Zeisses in a way. The Zeiss spoken of here is now known as Jenoptik. The real Zeiss ran off to the West, and the East German Zeiss was whatever remained.
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  40. Strong disagreement on all points. German engineering businesses have their hands in a LOT of pies, thousands of them. It has semiconductor business and others. Infineon is one of the larger semiconductor companies and is German. Germany also has one of world leadership positions in chemistry (BASF etc), medical technology, robotics and factory and engineering equipment, and companies like Bosch are involved in more engineering and manufacturing ventures than you can count, always behind the scenes, critical supplier. SSDs will almost fully supplant HDDs when the price is right for almost all uses, and the price of SSDs has basically no lower bound in sight. HDD capacity per square inch has been barely growing in the last 10 years, and it is an extremely complex assembly which can no longer be reduced in cost. SSDs are suitable for an approximately 5-7-year online storage use, just like HDDs. So when the device is normally connected to power, it will retain the data, and can survive power removal for a moderate length of time. What SSDs are not suitable for is offline storage. So if you disconnect an SSD from power, after a year or two of being unpowered, it will rapidly start losing data, while an HDD loses data when online, but remains perfectly stable offline. An SSD while connected to power periodically "refreshes" so reads and rewrites data stored on it, to nudge the gate voltages into alignment again and reduce data loss, while when it's not powered, the drift occurs uncontrolled. The refresh itself consumes a small percentage of SSD's overall limited write endurance. In this context, "online" means whether the device is powered and running and the data is accessible within fractions of a second after being requested. Currently, the vast overwhelming majority of data storage is HDD-based, online, redundant. To the extent that SSDs exhibit a data loss even online, it's only a matter of redundancy and cost. So when SSDs reach half the price/GB of HDDs, you can simply use twice as many SSDs to store data more redundantly and you will also use less power than with HDDs, and the break even point will come much earlier than that. Considering SSD power efficiency and power cost, it's likely when price/GB reaches near parity, HDDs are dead for all uses except offline backup. In offline storage, HDD will face more competition from tape storage. Currently, HDD only wins in offline storage because low price of HDD is facilitated by the large mass market that needs HDDs and uses them for online storage and general use, which will break away. When HDD price rises, there will be a re-evaluation that favours tape again. There is magnetic tape (LTO) and potentially optical laser tape. I think Seagate is gearing up for LTO expansion. The economic cross over point and thus extremely drastic demand decline of HDD will occur within 5 years.
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  41. If you'd like to elaborate in detail, it would be much appreciated.
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  42. You prototype it in simulatable or synthesizable form, in simulation or on an FPGA. It can be even shipped into products as an FPGA. But i bet you will come up with something that either isn't 'new', you just missed part of the history lesson; or it will turn out not to be efficiently implementable in silicon, or will turn out inefficient from practical concerns, like lack of great tooling ecosystem. I welcome you to prove me wrong. Also saying "more efficient" incurs "... for WHAT exactly". There's a reason a microcontroller and a server CPU are very dissimilar, in spite of potentially sharing parts of an instruction set. Are you designing an instruction set or a microarchitecture? Two pairs of shoes.
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  43. They existed but they weren't available and didn't satisfy potential demand.
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  44. But how do you solve the problem that there isn't enough annotated real world data? AI can be bootstrapped on synthetic data, hopefully from various sources (including say 3 or 4 videogames), and then can help convert raw real world data into annotated data under human supervision, which can then be poured back into the training mix. The people would manually exclude any data that was annotated wrong. Let's say you have plenty of annotated real world data (which we currently don't) and use only that for training, then you have another bias problem: it shows all the good driving and little bad and unexpected participants. But we NEED to take extreme circumstances into account, unusual situations, and weigh them heavily vs. the usual, because the cost of running over a human that you can't see yet or driving off a cliff is extremely high. So you have introduced a new bias problem, that your AI doesn't understand the concept of caution.
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  45. I don't know shit about Mexico but i'll tell you what about bits and bobs of Soviet Union. Like that whole Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and the rest of them? Well maybe not right now, but if you look back 10, 15, 20, 25 years, nothing happened there either. So first off why you'd wanna. Well there's the people, who are highly educated, lots of engineers, scientists, but also skilled former factory workers, from when these countries fully supplied themselves but industrial automation and efficiency was low. With a little money they will create, automate, optimise, and they're naturally resourceful, they're used to things not being quite by the book, things being impossible to acquire, but they invent and make do. There's also space and natural resources so the cost factors are very much on your side. But you can't, it would be the worst idea ever. Reason number one is organised crime. "Racket" they call it. Shakedowns. Everything you build, any machinery you acquire, it's not safe, you are probably going to lose it. And of course the organised crime has all the ties to the police and government, you as a budding industrialist do not. They shield each other. The bureaucrats have so gotten used to being fed, they have created a system where they can do anything and you can do nothing, they will create endless impediments, and you will be out of an unpredictable amount of money trying to bribe them, and bribes aren't optional, they are a hard necessity of doing business. You won't even know how and where and why everything is crumbling around you. Even if you were able to navigate the whole thing, like you make your connections to organised crime and you actually get protection and help navigating the bribes, you are likely still to get caught in the crossfire between different crime syndicates. And the hidden tax is overall incalculable, and expands to encompass anything you might earn. So yeah i don't know shit about Mexico, but if they've got some of those issues on their hands, you can't build there.
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  46.  Zaydan Naufal  Yeah i have Vizplex based e-readers, but they aren't very suitable for general tasks, actually i have one SONY with a touchscreen and it's an annoying piece of garbage, and i had one by Chinese company Hanlin customised by a Ukrainian partner company, LBook, it was actually top notch. I used to do quite a bit on my Casio PocketViewer and Psion5 in the late 90s, early 2000s. Those had monochrome screens, worked nicely enough in sunlight. I'm pretty sure i had some pretty hefty books on my PocketViewer as well. Oh wait i should just drop some batteries in there, i bet it still has all the data from back then... as opposed to Palm Pilot and Handspring Visor... although Visor Edge just feels SO NICE, i actually have one of those as well, so nice. I actually still play the original Gameboy Advance outdoors :D the only game console that works in the sun better than indoors.
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  47. It's funny how just adding "Dodge" to something immediately makes it less noble...
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  48. x86 is a prefixed instruction set, so it has potentially millions of valid instructions, most of which are redundant, and more byte sequences that do SOMETHING in spite of not being reasonably expected to be an instruction; see "Sandsifter - breaking the x86 ISA". It is probably more or less tested for a few thousand instructions that compilers and assemblers will actually emit; but for one, nontrivial bugs do pop up from time to time, where an instruction performs correctly under some circumstances and incorrectly under others; and for other, data can become executable.
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  49. I wager a guess that be Watanabe Yasushi, Tohoku University.
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  50. No.
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